In the decade of the 1940s, a remarkable string of vibrant and original films captivated America. Many were commercial as well as critical successes. All bore the distinctive imprint of their maker, a man as colorful as his most memorable characters. Preston Sturges set a new standard for creativity in Hollywood. He not only wrote such films as "The Lady Eve", "Sullivans Travels", "The Palm Beach Story", and "The Miracle of Morgans Creek", he also directed them at the rate of two a year. He opened the door for an entire generation of writersturneddirectors and made some of the most popular comedies of the sound era. At his peak, he earned the thirdhighest salary in the country. He was an inventor, songwriter, actor, playwright, restaurateur, industrialist, and winner of an Academy Award. He even owned a production company with his temperamental equal, Howard Hughes. Yet, barely ten years after it all began, it was over. Alienated by his reckless zeal for perfection, the studios turned away from him. Unable to work, Sturges took his young family to Europe, where he struggled desperately in growing obscurity to work the old magic just one more time.Drawn from interviews, letters, and other primary source materials, this was the first fulllength biography of a legendary American filmmaker, a man who made and lost two fortunes and whose genius shown brightly, as he put it, "between flops".

Binding: Paperback;360 pages; Publisher: Emmarac Editions; Classification: N/A; Weight: 603.08 g; Dimensions: N/A

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